"I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one……" — Tana French
"I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency."
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77 Quotes by Tana French
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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other…
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I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.
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You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls…
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Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming…
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Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting…
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years…
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my…
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You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every…
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It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real…
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get…
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend…
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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with…
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
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If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that…
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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
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Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
— Richard Dawkins
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on…
— Eric Hoffer
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely…
— Djuna Barnes
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
— Edith Hamilton
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their…
— Horace Mann
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